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Mormon identities in transition : proceedings of the conference on Mormon studies held in Apr. 1995 at the University of Nottingham
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ISBN: 0304336866 Year: 1996 Publisher: London New York Cassell


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Toleranz und Identität : Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtsbewusstsein zwischen religiösem Anspruch und historischer Erfahrung.
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ISBN: 9783525100967 3525100965 Year: 2010 Volume: 79 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht


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Religious identity and national heritage : empirical-theological perspectives.
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ISSN: 13891189 ISBN: 9789004228757 9789004228788 9004228756 Year: 2012 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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Religion und Mobilität : zum Verhältnis von raumbezogener Mobilität und religiöser Identitätsbildung im frühneuzeitlichen Europa
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ISBN: 9783525100943 3525100949 Year: 2010 Volume: 81 Publisher: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht,

Iconoclasm and iconoclash : struggle for religious identity
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ISSN: 13882074 ISBN: 1281936634 9786611936631 904742249X 9789047422495 9789004161955 9004161953 Year: 2007 Volume: 14 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book focuses on iconoclastic controversies and, in particular, their impact on the creation of religious identities. In the history of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture, religious identity was not only formed through historical claims, but also through the use of certain images: ‘images of God’, ‘images of the others’, and ‘images of the self.’ Moreover, in the struggle for religious identity these ‘images’ were time and again employed for the purpose of establishing distinct groups, both ortho- dox and deviant. At the same time, they supplied weapons in the theological debate and found explicit expression in certain rituals or liturgical traditions. These conference proceedings include a discussion of the role of images in society, politics, theology and liturgy, in particular addressing the ‘iconoclash’ of physical, mental and verbal images on the construction of religious identity.

Pluralism and identity : studies in ritual behaviour
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ISSN: 01698834 ISBN: 9004103732 9004378898 9789004103733 Year: 1995 Volume: 67 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra . Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three essays describe the ritualization of the encounter, or confrontation, between religions in India (between Buddhists and Hindus, and between Hindus and Muslims), and in Yemen between Muslims and Jews. Four essays study the responses to internal religious plurality, in early Israel, on Java, in Indonesia, and in Spain and North Africa. One essay explores responses to external religious plurality. In the epilogue, the social nature of pluralism and identity is highlighted.

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